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  • Soto v. Pennsylvania Parole Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 98 C.D. 2023

    Petitioner appealed the denial of his request for administrative relief from parole board's decision recommitting him as a convicted parole violator and court found board's choice of 154 days of street time was fully consonant with its discretion. Affirmed.

  • Bochetto & Lentz, P.C. v. Rivers

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Padilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03606

    The court issued a §1925(a) opinion urging the Superior Court to affirm its order denying the petition to open the default judgment in a suit for unpaid attorneys' fees and remanding the case for a new trial on damages.

  • Joseph v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-4049

    Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's Title VII, Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act complaint asserting race and age discrimination and retaliation and court found plaintiff's title VII claim failed because he did not identify any similarly situated comparators who were treated more favorably or sufficiently allege facts to support an inference of race discrimination, and he failed to show he was replaced by a younger person, but defendant's exhaustion argument as to plaintiff's PHRA claim was m

  • Maybrook-C Overlook Opco, LLC v. Cutsuries

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Motto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 10257 OF 2023, C.A.

    Defendant son filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint seeking recovery of the unpaid balance for his deceased mother's skilled nursing care. The court sustained the preliminary objection that plaintiff's complaint lacked requisite specificity where it failed to aver whether its agreement for the mother's care was oral or written and, if written, no copy was provided with plaintiff's complaint. The court overruled defendant's preliminary objection that the complaint lacked specificity by failing to set forth special damag

  • Commonwealth v. Garcia

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 648 WDA 2023

    Appellant appealed his sentence following his conviction for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Affirmed.

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  • Miller v. Schmid

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Rambo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-CV-00958

    Defendants moved for summary judgment in landlord tenant case and court dismissed plaintiff tenant's infliction of emotional distress, punitive damages, civil conspiracy and negligent hiring claims but found plaintiff sufficiently pled trespass, conversion and aiding and abetting. Motion granted in part and denied in part.

  • Commonwealth v. Morrobel

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1703 MDA 2022

    Challenge to discretionary aspects of sentence failed where exercise of discretion to impose consecutive sentences did not raise substantial question and sentencing court adequately justified its decision based on the gravity of the underlying offense. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Hite v. City of McKeesport

    Publication Date: 2024-03-22
    Practice Area: Employment Compliance
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Dumas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 180 C.D. 2023

    Municipal hearing officer abused discretion in declining employee's request for continuance to depose or cross-examine examining physician where the physician's opinion was integral to the denial of the employee's application for a disability pension. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • M&T Bank v. Arsenis

    Publication Date: 2024-03-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23-2324

    Defendant appealed the district court's remand of her state foreclosure case back to state court.

  • Dervitz v. ARS Nat'l Serv. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-20
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-3090

    Plaintiff appealed the district court's dismissal of her complaint.